🟢 Juno Jump Start: Clueless Carney had no idea
Carney said he was unaware of the 1,000 former international students protesting after they were not granted work permits, Canada's own threat centre warns about returning ISIS members, and more.
WATCH: Carney unaware of international student hunger strike as Smith says “go home”
Prime Minister Mark Carney said he was unaware of the around 1,000 former international students protesting after they were not granted work permits from their programs at Portage College, but said students who don’t have authorization to stay must follow “a process.”
In contrast, to the same question from Juno News, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told Juno News that former international students with expired visas and without permanent residency, “need to go home.” Watch now
Canada's own threat centre warns about returning ISIS members
A group of Canadians currently detained in Iraq for allegedly joining ISIS will remain “highly likely” to pose a threat to the country upon their return, according to the Integrated Threat Assessment Centre.
An ITAC report obtained by Global News noted that the unspecified number of ISIS members originating from Canada were likely to engage in extremism once they return, “either directly through an act of violence or indirectly by radicalizing others.” Keep Reading
Tobacco giant doubles down on Zyn investments, turning away from cigarettes
One of the world’s largest tobacco companies is doubling down on investments in a nicotine pouch production plant in the U.S., committing $1.2 billion to expanding U.S. Zyn production, signaling a further shift away from cigarette manufacturing while Canada maintains its ban on the product.
Philip Morris International announced a $1.2 billion investment from 2024-2028 into a Zyn manufacturing campus in Aurora, Colorado on Monday, doubling the amount it committed to investing in the plant two years prior. Keep Reading
Durham police cleared following allegations of a race-motivated violent assault on defence lawyer
An independent police investigation has cleared Durham Regional Police officers of criminal wrongdoing following allegations that they assaulted criminal defence lawyer Sudine Riley — described by media outlets as a “a Black woman who wears a headscarf” — because of her race and religion. Keep Reading
Fauci pleads the fifth 100+ times as Senate eyes contempt charges
Hours after the release of a bombshell government diary, Dr. Anthony Fauci repeatedly pleaded the Fifth before a U.S. Senate committee Tuesday, refusing to answer lawmakers’ questions more than 100 times under subpoena. Keep Reading
CNE receives 50,000 applications amid high youth unemployment
The Canadian National Exhibition fair in Toronto has already received nearly 50,000 applications for its annual job fair, about 10 times more than the 5,000 seasonal positions being offered. Keep Reading
FBI seized Chinese military COVID shipment months before Winnipeg lab scandal
More than a year before COVID-19 emerged, U.S. authorities intercepted coronavirus material allegedly shipped from a Chinese military laboratory to an American university researcher—exposing the same Wuhan research network later implicated in Canada’s explosive Winnipeg lab scandal. Keep Reading
LEVY: The decline and fall of Toronto, the no longer good
Sue-Ann Levy writes, “It’s a city where crackheads roam the streets, sometimes defecating in public spaces, while the police take a hands-off approach.” Keep Reading
Food Professor claims CBC, La Presse blacklisted him after media subsidy criticism
Dalhousie University food policy expert Dr. Sylvain Charlebois says a Radio-Canada journalist privately told him the public broadcaster was instructed to stop booking him after he criticized government media subsidies—a claim CBC/Radio-Canada categorically denies. Keep Reading
$135M Ghana bike boondoggle ran out of gas—at your expense
Global Affairs Canada spent $135 million buying thousands of motorbikes, trucks and farm equipment for Ghana—but failed to budget for fuel, spare parts and maintenance, according to an internal evaluation obtained through Access to Information. Keep Reading
Ottawa to “eliminate” financial requirements for U.S. streamers
The Carney government plans to “eliminate” its financial contribution requirement for U.S. streamers that had previously been set by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. Keep Reading